Haylee Shonk-Olguin participated in the beef section of the round robin livestock showmanship competition on Friday. She is a member of the Ignacio Westerneers. The judges in the showmanship contest are graduates of the local 4-H and FFA programs.

Michael Semler, a graduate of BHS, culminated years of hard 4-H work during his last year of the La Plata County Fair. He took awards for grand champion breeding beef, grand champion senior beef showman, reserve champion overall senior showman, third for market beef heifer, first and third in the market beef competition, and first and fourth in his class in market swine.